Crowe and Darrow, the lead attorneys on either side of the case, also presented wildly varied portraits of the killers. The prosecutor referred to Leopold and Loeb as “cowardly perverts ...

In the Leopold and Loeb trial of 1924, attorney Clarence Darrow achieved what many thought impossible. He saved the lives of two cold-blooded child-killers with the power of a speech. Nathan ...

Most historians who have studied the case believe that while Leopold drove the car, Loeb grabbed the boy from behind and bludgeoned the back of his head with the blunt end of a chisel before ...

9 (check local listings), which examines this blockbuster case. The pair, both 19, seemed to have it all. Leopold and Loeb were both scions of families worth multi-millions of dollars in 1920s ...

Ten days after the murder the case suddenly broke when a pair of glasses found at the scene of the crime were identified as Leopold’s, and Loeb and Leopold blandly confessed that they had killed ...

She also tells us about the tools used by the prosecution that were in their infancy during the famed case. Read Meilan Solly's Smithsonian story about Leopold and Loeb here (https ...